All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Today, I am very happy to announce that QuickSight is now generally available in the N. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users. QuickSight is a cloud-powered BI service built from the ground up to address the big data challenges around speed, complexity, and cost.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2024

And they can create relevant queries based on available data to answer questions and make business decisions. Democratizing data consumption Democratizing data consumption means making data available and accessible. With Notebooks, users can collaborate using code, text, and rich media to build and share insights.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To speed up release frequency, they’re investing in delivery-pipeline automation. The flip side of speeding up delivery, however, is that each software release comes with the risk of impacting your goals of availability, performance, or any business KPIs.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Availability. For availability, I always propose to use Dynatrace Synthetic vs looking at real user traffic.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Then when you have the metric, you want to explore it—what splits are available, how can I break it down, how can I aggregate it, and so on.” Type > to see a list of all available search categories. “Start by asking yourself what’s there, whether it’s logs, metrics, or traces. Discovery using the “explore data” interface.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. Seat Pagine Gialle Italia is an Italian media company most famous for producing the Yellow and White Pages directories.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

A group of companies formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) with the goal of creating a modern, royalty-free video codec that would be widely adopted and supported by a plethora of devices. The encoder can typically be improved years after the standard has been frozen including varying speed and quality trade-offs.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Page slowdowns can cause as much damage as downtime While Amazon and other big players take pains to avoid outages, these companies also go to great effort to manage the day-to-day performance – in terms of page speed and user experience – of their sites.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We deployed these enhancements gradually over time to ensure that our users didn’t experience any disruptions, but instead only a consistent improvement of their site speed. While some noticeable progress was made, it was challenging to implement significant changes just for the sake of speed. Creating A Performance Culture.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Fastest Media Sites. These visuals are a great tool for validating the best metrics to focus on for your pages.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Once the page is loaded, we can move to the Network tab, and filter by “media” to see all the video files: Filtering resources by 'Media' in DevTools. There is a solution though!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

However, building data grid views with performance, speed, and user experience in mind can be a particularly daunting task. These data grids are one of 100+ components available in a library bundle called Progress® Kendo UI®. Data grids, also known as data tables, are essential in presenting massive amounts of data to users.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Improve SSO deployment automation to enable faster rollbacks [Completed] We’ve updated our automated deployment stacks to ensure consistent versioning across all our environments as well as enhancing our auto-scaling mechanisms to speed up recovery, should this ever be necessary again. Hopefully never.) This has been completed.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Assuming encode/decode speeds meet your needs. Encode/Decode Speed. Degree of compression, image quality, and decoding speed are key factors to be considered when comparing image performance for the web. It was released in February 2019 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). JPEG is also a lossy compression format.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. This can help to ensure that the website or web application remains available and responsive, even during periods of high traffic.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. The file size of your images of course is very important, but SEO and social media also play an important part in helping your website perform and convert better.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As a result, we have opened 35 Availability Zones (AZs), across 13 AWS Regions worldwide. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. — Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Mobile image transfer size by year graphic from Media, Images, Web Almanac 2021 chapter. Fixes To Common Problems. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Implementing SEO best practice doesn’t just give you the best chance possible of ranking well in search engines; it makes your websites better by scrutinizing quality, design, accessibility, and speed, among other things. Work out what your priorities are, how you can measure progress, and the limitations of the available data.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

However, then the style will not be present when referencing the image directly (such as the image shared in social media via the <meta property="og:image" content="{image-url}"> tag), making the image devoid of personality. The images embedded in social media when sharing our content are of particular interest.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Market structure is not simply the number of firms, but the cost structure and economic incentives in the market that follow from the institutions, adjacent government regulations, and available financing. For social media platforms, this was addictive content to increase time spent on platform at any cost to user health.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +. Get the eBook.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The image was served from a separate assets domain (often bad for performance), but it wasn’t going to be possible to change that in the short term, and Smashing Magazine had already added a preconnect resource hint to speed that up as best they could. This is available at an origin-level (i.e. Large preview ). But hold up a minute.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Delivering Light Media Experiences with Data Saver. +. Print + eBook.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Developers often focus on improving scripting performance, but they need to realize that the bulk of their performance woes come from media content… - Una Kravets Image optimization. For example, while the average mobile download speed on 4G in Switzerland is fast at 35.2 The PHP library for the API is available on GitHub.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. I have seen our customers do so many radical new things with the analytics tools that our partners and us make available that I have made a few observations I would like to share with you.

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Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

With so many different metrics available to measure dozens of different aspects of a web page, it can be a struggle to know how best to quantify that page’s overall web performance. If this is a media site that wants to quickly load content so the user can start reading, you could reasonably say Page A is the best.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On April 24, OReilly Media will be hosting Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It a live virtual tech conference spotlighting how AI is already supercharging developers, boosting productivity, and providing real value to their organizations. The AI is taking too long to reply; we need to speed it up.

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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Media sites are particularly prone to this issue. It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. Now, we're opening an infrastructure Region with three Availability Zones. Today, customers can connect to the AWS EU (Paris) Region via Telehouse Voltaire.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Yes, we’ve changed how we defined the user experience of the page load to look at the loading speed of the most relevant content , but it’s basically reusing the old techniques of ensuring that the content loads as quickly as possible. How to optimize your LCP should be a relatively well-understood problem for most web pages.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. It being available in more than a dozen languages at the click of a button is another wonderful touch — a reminder that the Web is in fact borderless. The Marshall Project Mixes Media. Frederick O’Brien.

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